TV Restaurants

Is Ruby's Fast Food Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Chicago, IL)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6 Chicago, Illinois

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Ruby's Fast Food is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for Ruby's Fast Food, updated August 2026 with 615 photos and 423 reviews, showed the business active at 4551 N Pulaski Road in the Albany Park neighborhood. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured Ruby's Fast Food, a Filipino restaurant known for dishes such as crispy pata and silog breakfast plates, serving the Chicago area since 1997. According to search results describing the business, Ruby's relocated to its current Albany Park address in 2022. According to a Yelp listing updated August 2026, with 615 photos and 423 reviews on file, the restaurant remained active at 4551 North Pulaski Road, with hours posted from 10:30 AM into the evening on the days it operates during the week. The address originally returned for this record was tied to a different business at 6045 North Cicero Avenue, whose website had been replaced by unrelated gambling content; it did not match Ruby's Fast Food by name and was set aside as a mismatched lookup.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6

Air date not confirmed
Title: Messy · What was featured: Chicago Filipino fast-food spot serving crispy pata and silog plates

Also in Season 6 Best Thing I Ever Ate

Season 6: 33 of 43 still open

All 7 Season 6 episodes →

Nearest restaurants By distance from 4551 North Pulaski Road

  • Old Irving Brewing

    Chicago, IL 0.6 mi away

    Food Paradise

    Open
  • Smoque

    Chicago, IL 1.0 mi away

    Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives · Food Paradise

    Open
  • Tre Kronor

    Chicago, IL 1.2 mi away

    Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

    Open
  • The Abbey Pub

    Chicago, IL 1.2 mi away

    Bar Rescue

    Closed
  • Tano's Pizzeria

    Chicago, IL 1.4 mi away

    Food Paradise

    Closed
  • Babycakes (food truck)

    Chicago, IL 2.0 mi away

    Food Paradise

    Open
All 220 TV restaurants in Illinois →

Before you go: Businesses change fast. Always confirm directly with the restaurant — call ahead, or check its own current website or social media — before making plans around anything on this page.

Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/rubys-fast-food-chicago-2
See something wrong?

We work hard to keep every status accurate and dated, but restaurants change fast and our sources aren't perfect. If something here is wrong — a status, a name, an address, anything — tell us what you're seeing and where you saw it, and we'll check it.

Tell us →

Share

Record btiea-0522 · checked by Cal Marchetti.